Newsletters
The Friends publish their newsletter four times a year, please click below to read past copies which are full of interesting stories and facts.
- COVID19 interruptions
- Australian Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Handbury Award national award - Mandy King
- Adventure awaits at Nature Play Space
- Team update - Puya large genus of bromeliad
- Team update - Money Tree
- Brief history of a long saga - The Well restoration
- Team update
- Purpose of the Friends
- Major attractions Play Space and Well
- Nature Play Space saga
- Mawallock History
- Nature Play Space Heritage breakthrough
- William Donald
- Ninetieth edition Newsletter
- A Feast of Flora
- Entrance Gates
- Mawallock bus trip
- Curators report - Kew Gardens
- WCC Community Development Fund - 'New look web site'
- Arbor Day
- Wednesday Morning in the Gardens
- Pick My Project and Wunta in the Gardens
- John Hawker walk through the Gardens
- Acanthus Collection
- Old trees
- Well paving
- All abilities toilets
- Pick my Project announcement
- Searchable database and tree map
- Wollemi Pine
- Awards to Janet & Pat
- AGM report
- Australian Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- AGM 2018
- Remembering Marie Johnstone
- Charles Scoborio
- Memorial Gates
- Dr Isobella Younger Ross
- Street trees in Warrnambool
- Scoborio
- Story of the 150th
- Street trees in Warrnambool
- Team update
- Family Fun Day
- President Report
- Natasha Bieniek
- Results of Photo Competition
- Curators - McPhee. O'Sullivan. Sheely
- History of water
- Advance of irrigation within the gardens
- 150th outlay
- William Donald - Duncan Leitch
- 'Oh what a night'
- Vale Thelma Lynch
- Gala Night
- Story of WBG's
- Celebrating 150 yrs
- National Volunteer Award - Marie Johnstone
- Invitation to Night in the Gardens and other 150th celebrations 2016
- History snippets
- Lone Pine centenary event
- Book - In the Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Frank Clarke
- Gallipoli Oak
- Team update - John Sheely
- Article Well Out of Sight - DSWAA
- 150 celebration
- Photo Competition
- Well Project
- Masterplan
- Lone Pine
- Team update
- Botanic Gardens Report book
- Camperdown Botanic Gardens
- President Report
- Acanthus
- Australian Botany
- Coach trip to four district gardens
- WBG team update
- Duncan Leitch curator 1932-58
- AGM
- Original Canon stand at Flagstaff Hill
- Swan Reserve to become annex of WBG
- State of street trees in Warrnambool
- Mexican Hand plant
- President Report 2014
- Curators Report 2014
- Annual statement
- Winter reading a warm fire and a good book
- Warrnambool Lone Pine - The next generation
- Harvesting the Lone Pine seeds
- Dragon Tree
- Team update
- 70th Edition
- Honouring our living Gallipoli link
- Lagunaria Patersoni - Norfolk Island Hibiscus
- WBG Team report
- Grants
- Jewel of Regional Botanic Gardens
- Lone Pine 80 years
- Team update December 2013
- Spring Garden Day
- Roberto Burle Marx
- Lone Pine Pens
- Rotunda 100 yrs Anniversary
- Rotunda Brass Bands Memorials and Memories
- Restoration of Rotunda
- Band Rotunda
- Two Hundred Years Old - Canon
- Priorities WBF
- AGM 24th July 2013
- Rotunda centenary opening celebration - 1913
- Bats are still in the gardens
- Spirit of reverence and sincerity
- Rotunda
- New signs
- Bats are back
- Botanic gardens into the future
- Burr Oak
- Acanthus sennii
- Trimming of dead branches
- When the pines go ferrel
- Milk bottle memories
- Jamieson St Preps visit
- Open Gardens Australia
- Curator's Report
- President's Report
- Queensland Kauri
- The Lone Pine WBG
- Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens Conference
- The opening of the rotunda
- Remembering committee members
- Heritage festival
- Curators day
- Team update
- An elm tree's place in History
- Australia's first Christmas card
- Technology, Heritage and Warrnambool Botanic Gardens
- Team update
- Vale Isobel
- Guided tours & rustic ramblings
- Water, wells & windmills in Warrnambool
- Annual Report
- Our spring garden day
- Tilting at wind mills
- Presidents report
- Team update
- Myrtle Rust
- Guided walks
- The year so far
- Team update
- Where have all the big trees gone
- Wildlife in the gardens
- Bats or grey nomads
- Comments from Council
- The Cannon one hundred years 1910 to 2010
- Spring Garden Day
- Dreams can come true - Scoborio's Shed
- Bhutan Cypress
- Comments from Council
- The Cannon one hundred years 1910 to 2010
- Spring Garden Day
- Dreams can come true - Scoborio's Shed
- Bhutan Cypress
- Team update
- Presidents Report
- Lone Pine
- Wilde Weather
- Team update
- Kew Gardens, Hookers and Plant Collectors
- Removal of old carriage
- Team up date
- Update on the gun in the gardens
- 100 years ago: Entertainment in the Gardens
- Dietes robinsoniana The Wedding Flower
- Lone Pine
- The Gun in the Gardens to stay
- Guns and Cannon in the South West Victoria
- Garden Web Site promoted
- Donation of plants from Heritage Victoria
- WCC Discussion paper conclusion in relation to the Cottage
- Garden memories
- Presentation of Heritage Grant
- Bed 16 & 15 being restored
- Success of picnic tables
- Life in the Gardens
- Closure of Cockman Street
- The Fernery
- Botanic Gardens Australia New Zealand
- Curators cottage
- Mrs Donald's Christmas cake
- Stamp Celebrate Australian Botanic Gardens
- What a difference a Curator makes
- Bed No 21 under restoration
- Aleppo PineWest Himalayan Spruce
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- New Curator John Sheely
- Our Gardens 140 Yrs
- Updated Friends History
- Pants of South West Victoria
- Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller
- 100 Year since Scoborio retired
- Officially on Victorian Heritage Register April 2006
- New Brochure
- Charles Scoborio
- Bunya Bunya - Mary MacKillop
- Botanic Gardens
- Heritage Register recommendation
- Process started towards percuring a curator underway
- Woolemi Pine
- Gallipoli Oak
- "The Money Tree"
- History 140 years
- Gardens Registered by National Trust
- Committee reaffirmed its main purpose - reported
- Native Garden
- Water grant
- The Lone Pine
- The smell of the bush
- The Lone Pine
- The Child of Lone Pine
- Ferdinand von Mueller
- Cork Oak
- Ghosts of the Past
- Removal of Privot garden
- Restoration of garden beds
- Ficus coronata
- What's in a name
- Mexican Hand tree
- Cyprus Cedar
- Friends purpose "to maintain and develop WBG as an outstanding Guilfoyle garden
- The Botanic Gardens report book
- Teddy Bears' Picnic
- Games in the Gardens
- Chelsea flower shop
- Bats are gone
- William Scoborio planted a Hoop Pine
- Botanic Gardens: Engaging their Communities
- Ballarat Botanic Gardens
- Geelong BGs Bust Tour
- Bats are back
- Bhutan Cypress
- Creation of web site
- Blue Spruce - Picea pungens glauca
- Identification of all plants in the gardens
- Seeds collected from the Gallipoli Lone Pine
- Bats in the Gardens
- Cabbage Tree
- Report on Teddy Bears Picnic
- Luncheon with Michael McCoy
- Marvellous Mystical Magical Ginkgo
- Data Base
- Life Membership
- History of the Friends
- Rugosa art studio & garden
- Teddy Bears Picnic
- Norfolk Island Hibiscus
- Federation Fair report
- Snippets from History
- Parks Victoria Grant for labelling
- Visit from John Hawker
- Fernery replanting
- Funding received for Federation Fair
- Rural Community Development Program Grant
- Restoration of the Rotunda
- Growing Friends
- Guiding Friends
- Wunta - Musical afternoon in the gardens
- Rural Community Development Program Grant
- Federation Fair
- Botanic Gardens of the Northern Territory
- Curator's Cottage
- Historical Jottings
- Garden tour to Dunkeld
- Wattle time
- Removal of 10 "von Muller" pines
- Propagation of Eucalypts, Blackwood and Bursaria
- Botanic Gardens of the Northern Territory
- Norfolk Island Pine
- Albury Conference
- Brainstorming session
- Charles Scoborio - First Curator WBG
- Hemp
- Araucaria Rulei
- Volunteer Guides Canberra
- Araucaria cunninghamii
- A day in the Gardens
- Natives or not
- History of the Friends
- Friends awareness day
- Garden brochure
- Brochure being printed
- Araucaria bidwillii
- Eucalyptus
- Memorial Gates
- Bird Watch
- Visit to Bickleigh Vale
- Plants in our Garden - English Yew
- Botanic Gardens in the East
- Report of Association of Friends Conference
- Re-planting main entrance bed
- History of the Lone Pine
- Old Pines and Ancient Trees
- Day in the Gardens 200 people
- Fernery restored by East Warrnambool Rotary to be re-planted
- Preparation for Conference
- Guided Tours commence
- Five kilometres of lattice on the fernery to be painted
- $5,550 grant received for restoration of the Rotunda
- Annual Luncheon Andrew Lawson
- Identification and Labelling of Trees
- Patron announced Hon. Richard McGarvie
- Renovation of Rotunda
- Fernery maintenance
- Formation of Growing Friends
- Presentation to Parks and Gardens Committee
- Agreement to hold Association of Friends Conference
- Guest speaker Suzanne Price
- Association of Friends Conference RBGM
- Planting of Manna Gum Warrnambool's 150th Anniversary
- 150th Celebration Concert
- Coffee at Rosemount
- Proposed new seating
- Trips to district gardens
- Friends are incorporated
- Visit by Australian Garden History Society - Victoria Branch
- "Flora for Victoria" presentation of 121 young trees and commemorative planting of Agathis robusta
- Spring Luncheon Jane Edmanson
- Visit by John Hawker to implement the C&MP
- The need to become incorporated
- Acceptance of Conservation and Development Plan - 1995
- 70 trees donated by Royal Botanic Gardens
- Talk on the University of Oxford Botanic Garden by Timothy Walker
- Port Fairy Gardens open day
- Conservation and Development Plan adopted
- 1996 Project Regional Botanic Gardens
- Von Mueller Pines
- Music in the Gardens
- Geelong Friends visit
- Visit to Portland
- Visit to Purrumbete
- Lunch with Lisa Stafford
- Annual Conference in Geelong
- Gas lamp opening
- Visit by the Melbourne Friends
- Seats in the Gardens
- Music in the Gardens
- Open garden - "Rosemount"
- Fountain and Sundial
- National Estate Register
- Inspection of Perimeter Planting
- Dr Jim Willis
- Requirement for overall planting scheme
- Formation of Association of Friends